america s rivals? fred fleitz, ready to go, geared up and we ll be joined shortly. john: begin america reports with an indictment watch for former president trump as manhattan d.a. alvin bragg s motives are questioned by critics. john roberts in washington. happy tuesday, sandra. sandra: and john, you are warmed up yet again. sandra smith in new york city. the former president predicted he would be arrested today, but he is not expected to be arraigned until next week, the grand jury has another witness to hear from. john: the manhattan district attorney for the soft on crime approach is taking heat for what critics say is politically motivated. his office is firing back. sal wisenberg in a moment. bryan joins us live in studio. what is the latest from district attorney alvin bragg s office? the office has responded to jim jordan and house speaker kevin mccarthy s calls for bragg to testify to congress over the possible indictment of former president trump. the
this is unprecedented and it is historic. the first time a former president has ever been criminally charged and therefor we don t have any real roadmap for how it will now play out. we do know former president donald trump will be arraigned next week in manhattan courtroo surrounded by extraordinary security fear also surrounded b security tonight the manhattan da alvin bragg leaving his office after grand jury decided he had to demonstrate probable cause in the case he has pursue against trump, alleging campaign-finance laws were broken but was so-called hush payments to stormy daniels she claims she had an affair with trump before he ran for president for the immediate question is how exactly the former president will be processed and charged to move surrendering to authorities. it is a process, and arraignment, just like anyone else. and then you go from there. trump himself responded with fury tonight saying in part, quote, the democrats have lied and cheated and s
trump s legal team says the president is expected to turn himself in early next week according to district attorney alvin bragg s office. quote. we contacted mr. trump s attorney to coordinate his surrender to the manhattan s d.a. office on arraignment supreme court indictment remains under seal. guidance will be provided when the arraignment it date is selected. fact that the grand jury indictment remains under seal means we don t know the exact charges. bragg has been investigating trump for alleged payment made leading up to the 2016 lengsdz. that includes $130,000 to adult film actress stormy daniels. bragg questioned witnesses about another 150,000 paid to model karen macdougall allegedly that is. the former president has denied all of these allegations along with affairs with both. all the while bragg has been trthrust national debate. saying in part this is political persecution and election interference at the highest level in history. manhattan d.a. alvin bragg
nine soldiers killed in kentucky, two black hawk helicopters crashed in a residential area during a nighttime training mission. the deadliest loss for our military in a single incident since 13 troops were killed by a suicide bomber in kabul in 2021. what we are learning about the moments before the crash and what witnesses say they saw and heard. martha raddatz with late reporting. in russia tonight a u.s. journalist charged with espionage, the first time since the cold war. the kremlin claiming he was caught red-handed, the wall street journal reporter originally from new jersey facing decades behind bars if convicted to pleading not guilty in court. the wall street journal saying he is innocent, the white house saying the charges are the chilling 911 call audio released from inside that nashville school. a teacher in a closet in the art room with students calling for help. you can hear the children in the background, how the brave teachers protected their students. t
tribute tonight to those who died and a show of support to the families of the victims that demonstration of gratitude to the police officers who prevented many more lives being lost. first lady jill first lady jill biden blade flowers and stood alongside officials of the vigils among them the police chief whose officers acted so heroically in confronting the shooter appeared our police officers have cried and i have cried with national and the world beer to from your support, we gather strength and the will to gary on and thef our city. speak of the of 9-year-old have said that she was shocked that she will try to pull a fire alarm. both nine years old were also killed as well as adult staff members cynthia, mike hill, the school head katherine koonce whose officials suggested died trying to protect the children. saying that would have been typical of her. she was an absolute champion for her students. her students knew that she was in their corner. we have learned mor